suds

Soapy water.

Foam; lather.

Beer.

To wash in suds.

To form or make suds.

Water impregnated with soap, forming a frothy mass; a lixivium of soap and water.

The foam or spray churned up by a wounded whale; White water.

In the suds, in turmoil or difficulty; in distress.

A manufacturers’ name for various waste soap-liquors incidentally produced in the industries of wool- and silk-scouring, -bleaching, -dyeing, etc. These were formerly allowed to run off into river-courses, but, in view of their polluting effect on the water, measures are now adopted to at least partially prevent this pollution and recover some material of value from the suds. See Yorkshire grease, sake, 2, and sudcake.

Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.